Heavens to Betsy (partially lost unaired MGM sitcom TV series; 1994)

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[[Infobox image caption::A promotional photo of Parton from the subsequent 1996 pilot "Mindin' My Own Business." No known images from this show have been released.]]

Status: Lost


Heavens to Betsy is a lost 1994 sitcom starring Dolly Parton as Betsy Baxter, a Las Vegas lounge singer who returns home to Tennessee following a near-death experience.

There's some conflicting information about the show. According to IMDb, Betsy had died and was trying to earn her wings to get into Heaven (it's been alleged that the story was reworked as the 1996 movie of the week "Unlikely Angel"). There's also a notably strange 2003 report from CMT which states that a series by the same name starring Parton was forthcoming, with her appearing as a psychic R&B singer.

Regardless, six episodes were shot in Florida in 1994 with an intent to air at midseason in early 1995, but the show was plagued with production problems and wound up being permanently shelved. Parton made another foray into sitcoms in 1996 with the pilot Mindin My Own Business, but that also never saw the light of day.

Apparently a VHS with "almost four shows, bloopers and retakes" was sold on eBay, but the show has never been publicly available and/or found its way online.

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